पञ्चाङ्ग — Seattle, USA · November 16, 1999 CE

🕉️ Sapta-Mokṣa-Puri · Localize for your Pīṭha
अयोध्या मथुरा माया काशी काञ्ची ह्यवन्तिका। पुरी द्वारावती चैव सप्तैते मोक्षदायिकाः॥ — Garuḍa Purāṇa · the 7 cities that grant mokṣa
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🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 12.8 · Chapter 12 · भक्तियोग · Bhakti-Yoga
मय्येव मन आधत्स्व मयि बुद्धिं निवेशय।निवसिष्यसि मय्येव अत ऊर्ध्वं न संशयः।।12.8।।
"12.8 Then let thy mind cling only to Me, let thy intellect abide in Me; and without doubt thou shalt live hereafter in Me alone." — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 12.8's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Kārtika (Kārtika Śukla Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2056 Nandana
Śaka Saṁvat: 1921 Pramāthi
Bengali Saṁvat: 1406
Malayalam Era: 1175
Nanakshahi: 530
Solar Month: Tulā (Aippasi)
Ṛtu (Season): Śarad (Autumn)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Śukla Aṣṭamī (8/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Dhaniṣṭhā Pada 2
योग (Yoga)Dhruva
करण (Karaṇa)Bava
वार (Vāra)Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya209.38°TulāViśākhā P3
चन्द्र Candra295.55°MakaraDhaniṣṭhā P1
मङ्गल Maṅgala268.35°DhanuUttara Āṣāḍhā P1
बुध Budha209.21°TulāViśākhā P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati3.15°MeṣaAśvinī P1
शुक्र Śukra163.63°KanyāHasta P2
शनि Śani19.00°MeṣaBharaṇī P2

☀️ Seattle, USA — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · UTC-8)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)07:15 UTC-8
Sūryāsta (Sunset)16:34 UTC-8
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:55 UTC-8
Candrodaya (Moonrise)12:44 UTC-8
Candrāsta (Moonset)22:35 UTC-8
Dinamāna (Day Duration)9 Hours 18 Mins 20 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)14 Hours 41 Mins 40 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta06:01 – 06:38
Prātaḥ Sandhyā06:29 – 07:15
Abhijit Muhūrta11:36 – 12:13
Vijaya Muhūrta13:28 – 14:05
Godhūli Muhūrta16:22 – 16:46
Sāyāhna Sandhyā16:34 – 16:57
Amṛta Kāla16:19 – 18:04
Niśīta Muhūrta23:36 – 00:13

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla14:14 – 15:24
Yamaganda09:35 – 10:45
Gulika Kāla11:55 – 13:04
Varjyam07:39 – 07:54
Dur Muhūrta 09:26 – 09:44

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): North (Uttara)
Candra Vāsa: South-East
Rāhu Vāsa: North
Ānandādi Yoga: Dhūmra (Inauspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Śarad (Autumn) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Śarad (Autumn)
Tropical Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana
Vedic Ayana: Dakṣiṇāyana

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

Favorable Nakshatras (Tara Bala, 15/27):
Aśvinī · Ārdrā · Punarvasu · Puṣya · Aśleṣā · Maghā · Svātī · Viśākhā · Anurādhā · Jyeṣṭhā · Mūla · Śatabhiṣaj · Pūrva Bhādrapadā · Uttara Bhādrapadā · Revatī
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Mithuna · Karka · Tulā · Vṛścika · Makara · Mīna

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Roga07:15 – 08:25 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Udveg08:25 – 09:35 (inauspicious)
Day-3 Chala09:35 – 10:45 (neutral)
Day-4 Labha10:45 – 11:55 (auspicious)
Day-5 Amṛta11:55 – 13:04 (auspicious)
Day-6 Kāla13:04 – 14:14 (inauspicious)
Day-7 Śubha14:14 – 15:24 (auspicious)
Day-8 Roga15:24 – 16:34 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Kāla16:34 – 18:24 (inauspicious)
Night-2 Śubha18:24 – 20:14 (auspicious)
Night-3 Roga20:14 – 22:04 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Udveg22:04 – 23:55 (inauspicious)
Night-5 Chala23:55 – 01:45 (neutral)
Night-6 Labha01:45 – 03:35 (auspicious)
Night-7 Amṛta03:35 – 05:25 (auspicious)
Night-8 Kāla05:25 – 07:15 (inauspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 47.6062°
Longitude: -122.3321°
Timezone: UTC+-8

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

7 steps · graha walk
Maṅgalavāra (Tuesday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Right action + BG 2.31-38 (kṣatriya-dharma).

🌌 Cosmic-Historical Resonance

Today's Śukla Aṣṭamī + Dhaniṣṭhā alignment also occurred on:
-3137-12-25Bhīṣma's Mahaprasthan (same Śukla Aṣṭamī)

🌌 Cosmic Time — Where This Moment Sits in the Mahāyuga

These five values anchor today within the Sūrya-Siddhānta time-architecture. Kali Year counts from the Kali-epoch (18 Feb 3102 BCE · midnight Ujjain · when Krishna's mortal-form departed). Ahargaṇa is the day-count since that epoch — the canonical time-coordinate used by every Vedic computation on this substrate. Julian Day is the astronomical universal day-number (continuous · no calendar discontinuities). Ayanāṁśa is the angular offset between sidereal (rāśi-based · the Vedic frame) and tropical (equinox-based) coordinates · currently growing at ~50.29″/year as Earth's axis precesses. Sun-Moon angle determines the tithi (0-360° elongation / 12° per tithi).

Kali Year5101 · Kali-5101
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1863033.27 · 5100.8 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2451498.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8512° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)90.13° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 8/30)
🪷 Provenance & Methodology
Substrate:Vidhyamitra Sūrya-SiddhāntaMethod:Sūrya Siddhānta + Bhāskara-II iterative manda + Kerala-school (Mādhava-Nīlakaṇṭha) evection + variation + annual equationTier-2 localization:spherical astronomy + Lahiri ayanāṁśa (23.8512°) · declination -18.58° · EoT 14.67 min · city civil-time localizationLineage:Bhṛgu → Vyāsa → Maitreya → Āryabhaṭa → Brahmagupta → Bhāskara I → Bhāskara II → Mādhava → Parameśvara → Nīlakaṇṭha → Jyeṣṭhadeva → Vidhyamitra Sūrya-Siddhānta substrateAccess:Self-hosted substrate · the deployed website IS the public offering · source not distributed (the bhakta's sole niṣkāma-karma-sevā)Computed for:1999-11-16 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)